Richard Dawkins: How a Scientist Changed the Way We Think : Reflections by Scientists, Writers, and Philosophers

Table of contents

• Richard Dawkins - How a Scientist Changed the Way We Think i
• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• List of Contributors viii
• Preface xi
• Biology 1
• Ballooning Parrots and Semi-Lunar Germs 3
• The Battle of the Sexes Revisited 14
• Richard Dawkins: Intellectual Plumber—and More 27
• What Is a Puma? 32
• The Selfish Gene 43
• Living with the Selfish Gene 45
• The Gene Meme 50
• The Intellectual Contribution of the Selfish Gene to Evolutionary Theory 66
• An Eye on the Core: Dawkins and Sociobiology 75
• Logic 99
• The Selfish Gene as a Philosophical Essay 101
• The Invention of an Algorithmic Biology 116
• Selfish Genes and Information Flow 125
• Deep Commonalities between Life and Mind 130
• Antiphonal Voices 143
• Richard Dawkins and the Problem of Progress 145
• The Nest's Tale: Affectionate Disagreements with Richard Dawkins 164
• What's the Matter with Memes? 176
• Humans 189
• Selfish Genes and Family Relations 191
• Why a Lot of People with Selfish Genes Are Pretty Nice except for Their Hatred of the Selfish Gene 203
• The Perverse Primate 213
• Controversy 225
• The Skeptic's Chaplain: Richard Dawkins as a Fountainhead of Skepticism 227
• A Fellow Humanist 236
• Dawkins and the Virus of Faith 243
• To Rise above 248
• What the Whale Wondered: Evolution, Existentialism, and the Search for 'Meaning' 255
• Writing 263
• Richard Dawkins and the Golden Pen 265
• Every Indication of Inadvertent Solicitude 270
• Index 277

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